Hello. Sorry it's been awhile, but I used to post here. My computer has been ill for a few weeks.

I can't wait for TTT! I watch my poor quality trailer for it that I watch all the time. It looks so good. And I got a screening copy of FotR, very good quality. I watched it the other night; it truly is an exceptional movie. The part at the end with Sam and Frodo still makes me cry.

Is anyone else waiting for the second verison of FotR to come out before buying it? The extra footage is going to be wonderful.

Stick with Elfish, Russian will got you no where. I dont know if I will wait for the second version of LOTR. I might just buy both. I am all excited aabout Ents though. I cant wait to see that gt busy on Isenguard.

You want to be an astronaut, double-bass? I'd love to as well. But I must disagree. Elvish would be more important to know. Where could I get a program to learn it? It's such a beautiful, musical language.

And Elven, the ents are going to be great, though personally I can't wait to see more Legolas. He was the pleasant surprise of FOTR for me. The way he fought was just incredible.

There are two ways to read the Sil.; either read very carefully, and keep checking the map, glossary, and family trees to keep yourself straight, or to read it through without really paying attention to the names, get the jist of what's going on, and keep going back until you get all the details, which is what I did. However, it's probably better to do it the first way. I enjoyed doing it the second way all the same, though, so if you don't like reading detailed stuff, give it a shot!

lightnight, you should check out that National Geographic special about Tolkien and the LOTR. Finland seems to be one of the influences of Elvish. The whole show is good. Not really about the film, more about Tolkien and the book's parallels to the real world.

National Geographic talking about Tolkien?
Wow! I have to find that.
Anyways, I'm finding that the whole LOTR has some kind of paralel with the Bible ...anyone else has thought about that,or noticed something?

eye_of_iluvatar:there's a lot of attention needed to read the main Tolkien's trilogy, specially if you want to remember all the names and battles.Is there even more attention needed to read The Silmarillion?

I read LOTR in a similar fashion, just going back until everything made sense; the good thing about this is that you get many "Ohh! NOW I get it,"'s, so you gradually appreciate the depth that JRRT put into it. On reflection, the Sil. is probably less confusing than LOTR, with respect to names and locations. Since it starts from the beginning of time, and deals with only a very small area of ME, it probably wouldn't be hard to keep track if everybody if you read slowly and carefully, since you do have all the reference to check on. Whichever way you do, good luck, and enjoy! It's definitely my current favorite book right now.

The online one doesn't have Treebeard!! Oh well. They didn't show much of him in the theatrical trailer either. But you know, they always leave the best parts out of the trailers (like Yoda vs. Dooku)!

Perhaps you're right, Tatooine_Rose.
I can't wait to see Treebeard in action!!

BTW, I've been thinking about this and I would like to see what do you think about:

Do you remember the Argonath?In some draws done before the movie, they were raising their hand in salute.
But in the movie, their arms were completely straight.I think the position chosen to recreate them in the movie is more suited to the books' description.

I remeber it was said that their salute was noble, but terrible at the same time, as if they were saying: stop!! Don't go ahead, or you will never return alive.Go back now you're still on time!